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Oil prices edged up on Friday, stabilizing after five straight days of falls, although a surge in U.S. crude inventories and doubts over the ability of producers to coordinate output cuts continued to keep a lid on the market, according to Reuters. Brent crude LCOc1 was up 13 cents, or 0.28 percent, at $46.48 per barrel at 0515 GMT (1:25 a.m....

The National Bank of Ukraine on Thursday evening lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate by four kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 25.59 to the dollar. The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for November 4: $100 costs UAH 2,559.4856 (on November 3, it was UAH...

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry believes that a Wednesday provocation around President Poroshenko`s telephone conversation with his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev involving an alleged prank is aimed at disrupting Ukraine`s promotion of a UN resolution on human rights violations in the Russian-occupied Crimea, Press-Secretary of the Foreign...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to grant Russian citizenship to Hollywood actor and martial artist Steven Seagal, the Kremlin said on its website on Thursday. It is worth noting that Seagal has repeatedly visited Russia and met with Putin. In August 2014, the actor visited occupied Crimea. In January 2016, Seagal obtained...

Independence is an important component – something that the country has been missing for 25 years – energy independence. Ukraine was held on a gas leash, like a puppy, for 25 years, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at an opening of a new gas well in Lviv region, the president`s press service reported. Building up own gas...

An aide of LDPR deputy of the Russian parliament Mykhail Degtyaryov was killed in Syria while taking part in the conflict among other Russian mercenaries, Reuters reported. Degtyaryov told Reuters that the man, Sergei Morozov, was a friend and confirmed that he had died in combat during the battle for Palmyra. Reuters also reported Morozov had...

If Hillary Clinton becomes president of the United States, it is likely that she will retain key elements of President Barack Obama`s policy toward Ukraine, said former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, now a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute Steven Pifer, ZN.ua reports. In particular, Pifer said Ms Clinton could continue to support Kyiv, as well as...

Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 47 times in the past 24 hours, including 26 barrages in the Mariupol sector, 13 in the Luhansk sector, and eight in the Donetsk sector, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. View map in full size In the Mariupol...

At least 239 migrants, believed to be from West Africa, have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, a spokesman for the United Nations migration agency, said on Thursday, according to Reuters. One group of migrants, including about 20 women and six children, set off in a rubber dinghy from Libya around 03:00 on Wednesday, but their boat collapsed...

The pullback of Russian-made heavy flamethrower systems, the so-called Buratino (”Pinocchio”), from the contact line in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, was discussed during Trilateral Contact Group talks in Minsk in January 2015, yet, there is no mention of this type of military hardware in open sources featuring the Minsk agreements concluded on...